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Hunt, 30 vols., half -morocco, 3 in boards uncut, 6 in publishers' cloth uncut, 39 vols. in all, 1807- 1878, is priced HZ. 11s.

Mr. George Gregory's Bath Catalogue, Nos. 201-2 contains under Book-plates the Journal of the Ex-libris Society, 11 vols., 4to, half-calf, 1892-1901, 31. 10s. Boyne's ' Tokens,' 4to, 1858, is 6Z. 6s. ; Burney's ' History of Music,' 4 vols., 4to, calf, 1789, 3Z. 3s. ; the second edition (first in folio) of ' The Anatomy of Melancholy,' 1624, 101. ; and Cooke's ' British Fungi,' 8 vols., in the original parts, 11Z. Under Court Memoirs and Napoleana is La Belle AssenihUe, 15 vols., 1808- 1813, 8Z. Under Cruikshank is an autograph copy of ' The Bottle,' 61. There is a set of The Gentle- man's Magazine, complete, with the exception of 4 vols., 221. ; and a set of Jesse's Memoirs, "30 vols., new, 121. Horace Walpole's copy of Le Neve's ' Monumenta Anglicana,' 5 vols., old calf, 1717-19, is 6Z. Under the Masterpieces of the Museo del Prado are 110 exquisite photo- gravure reproductions, a special subscription copy, Berlin Photographic Company, 15?. Under White's ' Selborne ' is the first edition, 11. Is. The frontispiece is mounted and cut close at top, hence the low price. Under Wiltshire are Hoare's ' Ancient History,' 2 vols., 1810-19, and the ' Modern History,' 6 vols., 1822-52, imperial folio, morocco, 35Z. There are works from the libraries of the Rev. Foskett Wayne and our old corre- spondent Charles Lawrence Ford. There is a long list of Bohn's Libraries. Under Japanese Art is ' One Hundred Masterpieces,' 2 vols. Tokyo, 1909, 6Z.

Messrs. Henry Sotheran & Co.'s Price Current 711 contains a fine copy of the rare editio princeps of Aristophanes, Venetiis, apud Aldum, 1498, folio, old olive morocco, 351. There are also fine copies of rare editions of the Bible, including Biblia Sacra Latina Vulgatse Editionis, in Gothic letter, 4 vols., folio, half-parchment, Venice, 1489, 20Z. ; the last edition but one of Cranmer's, 1562, 311. 10s. ; and the second folio of the Authorized Version, 1613, 11. Is. Other rare books are the 1757 Boccaccio, 5 vols., 12Z. 12s. ' Edinburgh Essays,' 3 vols., 1754-71, 61. 6s. and a tall copy of the first edition of Parkinson's ' Garden,' 1629, 21Z. Under Shelley are the .original first issue of ' St. Irvyne,' 1811, 65Z. ;

.and Moxon's edition, 4 vols., 1839, 4Z. 4s. There is a set of first editions of Stevenson, 38 vols., very

-.scarce, 52Z. 10s. An extremely rare book is the first edition of Stubbes's ' Anatomie of Abuses,' 1583, 21Z. Only one copy of this has been sold by auction during the past twenty years, and realized 27Z. Under Milton is a fine tall copy of the first edition of ' Paradise Regained ' and ' Samson Agonistes,' 70Z. This has the rare first leaf, " Licensed July 2, 1670," and unpaged leaf of Errata at end. There is a sumptuous set of Byron with Life by Moore, Murray '3 library edition,

.extra-illustrated with 40 mezzotint portraits and 495 views, 10 thick 4to volumes, with book-plate of

son is a genuine copy of the first issue of ' Helen's Tower.' Only a few copies of this were presented to friends ; this was given by Lady Gifford to her son on his twenty-first birthday, and there are ten lines on the last leaf by the poet. Among Thackeray items is the first "edition of ' Vanity Fair ' with the suppressed woodcuts of Lord Steyne, new calf, 4Z. 15s.

[Notices of other Catalogues held over.]

Byron, 1830-39, 60Z. Under Greater London we find the well-known names of Agas, Besant, Chamberlain, Clinch, Maitland, and others, beside Malcolm's ' Londinium Redivivum,' in- cluding the 'Anecdotes,' 6 vols., 4to, 1802-11, 4Z. 4s., and Wilkinson's ' Londina,' 2 vols., 4to, 1819-25, 5Z. 5s. There is a long list under Scot- land, including Stuart's ' Sculptured Stones,' 2 vols., folio, 1856-67, 10Z. 10s. Under Tenny-

MR. W. L. RUTTON, F.S.A. As a correspondent of Mr. Rutton for several years, I should like to express my sense of the great loss that the study of London topography has sustained by his death. The correspondence began some seventeen or eighteen years ago, when an inquiry regarding the site of Mrs. Siddons's house at Paddington was being pursued in ' N. & Q.,' and Mr. Rutton, by his skill as a surveyor, was enabled satisfactorily to settle the question, in the opinion of those best qualified to judge. Since then scarcely a month elapsed without the receipt of a letter on some interesting topic. In June, 1909, when I met him at the British Museum in order to look through some authorities to which I wished him to refer in connexion with the paper on Eia which he was about to read before the Society of Antiquaries, and which has since been published in the Archceo- '.ogia, he seemed as hale and vigorous as an ordinary man of fifty. In his last letter, which was dated less than three weeks before his death, he told me he was beginning a series of papers on Westminster for The Home Counties Magazine, in which some of his best work is contained, and had ventured on a visit to the British Museum, from which he had suffered no hurt save a temporary obstruction in breathing which he was getting over. His death from cardiac asthma on the 3rd inst. was, I fear, the result of this visit.

Mr. Rutton made no pretensions to being a man of great erudition, but he was a careful and pains- taking antiquary, who never accepted a statement on trust, but always endeavoured to find record authority in support of his views. His letters were usually sal bed with an infusion of dry humour which made them pleasant reading." He will perhaps be best remembered by his ' History of the Wentworths,' which is a work of considerable

value.

W. F. P.

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